===== A Beginner'​s ​Course for Biology and Bioinformatics Students =====

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===== A Beginners ​Course for Biology and Bioinformatics Students =====

//**By Andrea Cabibbo, Ph.D.**//

//**By Andrea Cabibbo, Ph.D.**//

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Many have reasoned along the lines "do we need specific web development frameworks for Bioinformatics"​ and the short answer is generally no ([[http://​www.biostars.org/​p/​7097/​|link]]). There is an extremely rich variety of programming languages, web development frameworks (Ruby on Rails is very popular lately), tools for general web development that are perfectly fit to handle Bioinformatics data, Bioinformatics web servers and applications,​ Bioinformatics and Biological web databases. We do have extensive Bioinformatics specific libraries anyway (bioperl, biopython, bioruby, biophp) that can be used in the deployment of web Bioinformatics applications.

Many have reasoned along the lines "do we need specific web development frameworks for Bioinformatics"​ and the short answer is generally no ([[http://​www.biostars.org/​p/​7097/​|link]]). There is an extremely rich variety of programming languages, web development frameworks (Ruby on Rails is very popular lately), tools for general web development that are perfectly fit to handle Bioinformatics data, Bioinformatics web servers and applications,​ Bioinformatics and Biological web databases. We do have extensive Bioinformatics specific libraries anyway (bioperl, biopython, bioruby, biophp) that can be used in the deployment of web Bioinformatics applications.

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The duty of the Bioinformatics student is to acquire solid basis in web development,​ become familiar with the available general technologies and then combine them with his knowledge about the various Bioinformatics methods and algorithms, to develop great Bioinformatics web projects and applications. In this book we focus on the first part of this process, while constantly keeping an eye on the Bioinformatics applications.

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The duty of the Bioinformatics student is to acquire solid basis in web development,​ become familiar with the available general technologies and then combine them with his knowledge about the various Bioinformatics methods and algorithms, to develop great Bioinformatics web projects and applications. In this book we focus on the first part of this process, while constantly keeping an eye on the second part.

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